Flexdashboard tutorial with Kaelen Medeiros

Happy New Year! For the February edition of our R-Ladies Dallas webinar series, we are excited to welcome Kaelen Medeiros as our guest speaker. Kaelen will introduce the topic of flexdashboards.

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Session title: Let’s Build a Flexdashboard!
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Abstract: Don’t want to stand up an entire Shiny app to make a quick dashboard, but you know RMarkdown? Enter flexdashboard, which allows you to create a dashboard using a RMarkdown file. In this short workshop, we’ll build a flexdashboard by exploring and visualizing metrics for a pre-specified open dataset. We’ll learn the basics of flexdashboard while brainstorm dashboard design ideas, calculate and display our metrics, and discuss possible deployment options.

Bio: Kaelen is a data scientist at Medidata Solutions where they work as an R programmer on the microservices team. They've also worked at Spring Health, DataCamp, HERE Technologies, and have done a fair amount of R and Shiny consulting on the side. Kaelen has been at various times in their life a film theorist, preschool teacher, test prep tutor, videographer, and nanny before getting a MS in Biostatistics from LSU Health Sciences Center in 2016 and starting work as a statistician and data scientist. Outside of work they enjoy podcasts, cats, aliens, nail polish, and data.

Twitter: twitter.com/kaelen_medeiros

Website: klmedeiros.com

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